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  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3594

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Thanks OG.... Did you copy the text from somewhere, or (if it is your own) are you in estate agency? The tone of those two paragraphs is note-perfect!
    I'll take that as an insult!!

    It comes from the Gentoo website

    OG

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26514

      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      I'll take that as an insult!!
      I was only checking!
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26514

        If they must have a puzzle on the 'show' why is is delivered in the slow distinct tones of a nurse in a secure institution talking to inmates with a mental age of 3???

        (Not to mention the imbecilic simplicity of the question today)
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Paul Sherratt

          What was that question ?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26514

            Conducting... fortune... laxatives.... acerbic wit... mainstay of British music....



            (just realised this is the wrong thread!)
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Anna

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Conducting... fortune... laxatives.... acerbic wit... mainstay of British music....
              But, did you hear, after the first clue 'family fortune founded on laxatives' someone tweeted in that the answer was Scheidt !! (Sorry, I thought that was funny .......)

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              • Paul Sherratt

                Was the irony lost on the team ?

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26514

                  Originally posted by Anna View Post
                  But, did you hear, after the first clue 'family fortune founded on laxatives' someone tweeted in that the answer was Scheidt !! (Sorry, I thought that was funny .......)
                  Yes! And good on Rob for reading it out (I took it as a shout of resistance from both the listener and him!)
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Anna

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Yes! And good on Rob for reading it out (I took it as a shout of resistance from both the listener and him!)
                    That's how I took it as well ......

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22110

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      But, did you hear, after the first clue 'family fortune founded on laxatives' someone tweeted in that the answer was Scheidt !! (Sorry, I thought that was funny .......)
                      Play it again Sam!

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                      • JFLL
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 780

                        Originally posted by salymap View Post
                        Anyone who lives in Rochester, Kent is bound to have the right ideas. As someone from Sidcup, Kent, being dragged into Greater London, I agree with your post. .
                        True, Saly. I regard myself as an adopted 'Kentish Man' of the Hundred of Blackheath, even though we're said to have been in London since 1888. Vivat Cantium.

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                        • salymap
                          Late member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5969

                          Originally posted by JFLL View Post
                          True, Saly. I regard myself as an adopted 'Kentish Man' of the Hundred of Blackheath, even though we're said to have been in London since 1888. Vivat Cantium.
                          Funny how places move. When my parents moved here it was in Chislehurst & Sidcup UDC and there were notices about not letting horses graze in the little park across the road. Now we're dragged into LB of Bexley and we haven't moved an inch.

                          What was all that funny stuff earlier?? Was the answer Beecham ??

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37560

                            Originally posted by salymap View Post
                            Funny how places move. When my parents moved here it was in Chislehurst & Sidcup UDC and there were notices about not letting horses graze in the little park across the road. Now we're dragged into LB of Bexley and we haven't moved an inch.

                            What was all that funny stuff earlier?? Was the answer Beecham ??
                            On a 1963 OS map, Kent and Surrey started just up the road! Penge in KENT!!! Can you imagine it???

                            I still find it hard to figure how the good people of Richmond on Thames think of themselves as Surreyites. Much too good to be Londoners, one assumes

                            Mind you, in me granddad's day, Essex started at the River Lea, and it was all fields north of Ally Pally, as it would have been here...

                            Old maps are just wonderful.

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                            • JFLL
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 780

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              On a 1963 OS map, Kent and Surrey started just up the road! Penge in KENT!!! Can you imagine it???

                              I still find it hard to figure how the good people of Richmond on Thames think of themselves as Surreyites. Much too good to be Londoners, one assumes

                              Mind you, in me granddad's day, Essex started at the River Lea, and it was all fields north of Ally Pally, as it would have been here...

                              Old maps are just wonderful.
                              They certainly are, SA. Do you know this splendid site, which has a good run of maps from the mid-19th century on?

                              Why is Old Maps no longer available? Over the last 10 years Landmark has partnered with the team at Old Maps to sell our historical mapping data to consumers keen to learn about local history or purchase printed maps for personal or decorative use. Viewing and printing these maps from the Old Maps website was […]

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                              • salymap
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 5969

                                S-A and who could imagine the Courtaulds moving into Eltham as it is now, but that was Ken t years ago I'm told.

                                And the great Estates of Danson,Hall Place ans Sidcup Place were all there was until the hoi polloi like us moved in in the 1930s with our semi-detatched rabbit hutches.

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